Japanese hornbeam
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The Japanese hornbeam ( Carpinus japonica ) is a plant that for the genus of hornbeam ( Carpinus ) from the family of the birch family belongs (Betulaceae). It is native to Japan , where it is known as Kumashide ( Japanese 熊 四 手 ). The tree is rarely found in collections and large gardens in Central Europe .
description
The Japanese hornbeam grows as a tree and reaches heights of up to 10 meters. The smooth bark is gray-purple or dark green in color with wavy pink stripes. The bark of the branches is red and hairy. The 5 to 10 cm long, lanceolate leaves are sharply serrated with teeth pointing forward. Each leaf has 20 to 22 pairs of parallel nerves.
The fruit cluster consists of a 5 by 3 cm egg-shaped bundle of inwardly curved bracts , which are initially pale green and turn carmine-pink in August. The fruits are nuts .
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 16.
Systematics
The first description by the German-Dutch botanist Carl Ludwig Blume was published in 1851.
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- Alan Mitchell, translated and edited by Gerd Krüssmann: The forest and park trees of Europe: An identification book for dendrologists and nature lovers . Paul Parey, Hamburg and Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-490-05918-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carpinus japonica at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Mus. bot. 1: 308. 1851. See entry in GRIN Taxonomy for Plants.